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Showing posts with label Engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Engineering. Show all posts
Friday, July 3, 2026

John and Charlotte Guest - GKN

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In 1759, in Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil, an iron works was founded by a group of iron masters. Eight years later, John Guest joined the com...
Monday, June 15, 2026

Edward, Tom and Albert, and Douglas Vickers - three generations of steel makers

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 By the mid eighteenth century members of the Vickers family were in business at Mill Sands, Sheffield as millers. With the growth of steel,...
Monday, June 8, 2026

William Armstrong - hydraulics engineer and armament manufacturer

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William Armstrong was born on 26 November 1810 in a three storey terrace house in Shiedfield on the edge of Pandon Dene not far from the exp...
Monday, June 1, 2026

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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 Isambard, born in 1806, was the only son of Marc Brunel the celebrated engineer of the Thames Tunnel. Marc was French and as a royalist fle...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Cambridge manufacturing history

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Cambridge is of course the other of our ancient universities and the offspring of Oxford whose students fled there to escape death at the co...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Peterborough manufacturing history

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 A city dominated by its cathedral; its life revolved around agriculture with regular markets controlled by the Dean & Chapter until the...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Northampton manufacturing history

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 In my perambulation around the manufacturing towns of Britain, I have normally found the presence of raw materials and water, ideally navig...
Friday, January 31, 2025

Huddersfield manufacturing history

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 Huddersfield provided a commercial centre at its famous Cloth Hall for the many thousands of home working wool weavers in the surrounding d...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Newcastle and Gateshead manfacturing history

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 Coal was at the heart of the economy of Tyneside which, with its long navigable estuary, was able to ship many of the millions of tons prod...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Lessons learnt from a quarter of a millennium of British Manufacturing

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Text of talk to University of Lincoln engineering students – December 2024 I draw extensively on my books How Britain Shaped the Manufa...